The Humanitarian Sensibility and the Inevitable Conflict

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The Humanitarian Sensibility and the Inevitable Conflict
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was a 19th Century American poet and educator. He is the renown author of many poems, the most widely known being “Paul Revere’s Ride” (Talib, 56). While staying at Heidelberg, he was greatly influenced by the works of the German romantic poet Novalis, his works greatly influenced Longfellow, and lifted his grief after the death of his first wife. Later on, he wrote and published the sentimental prose romance, “Hyperion”, and his first volume of poetry, “The Voices of the Night.” The story line behind Hyperion is basically pursuit for his second wife Frances Appleton, whom he met soon after his first wife’s death in Europe.
Frances’ father was wealthy merchant who gave them Craigie house as their wedding present. The house became famous to Longfellow’s admirers. Talib notes that Longfellow had a great command in many languages ((Talib, 61) and a well known translator fondly remembered for translating Dante’s “Divine Comedy”. Additionally, he was a very popular man who associated in shrewd marketing of his literary wares and interesting and well-crafted poems. Mostly, he was very much concerned with the needs of the middle –class American family too whom he pays tribute for the support he was accorded central to myths of his literature. The romance in his poems was unquestionable and mostly, he celebrated the female genre, this is especially well indicated in his “the beauty and strength of woman’s devotion” in the great works such as Evangeline and the Golden Legend. The poem romanticized what the Women’s move...